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Georgia State University

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5.08/20/2025

Always kind, respectful, and approachable.

5.04/30/2025

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About Andrea

Andrea Scarantino is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, where he has served since 2005. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh (2005), a Ph.D. in Economics from Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy (2000), and a B.S. in Economics from Bocconi University, Italy (1994). Scarantino is also Associate Faculty in the Neuroscience Institute and Affiliate Faculty in the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics. His research encompasses philosophy of mind, philosophy of emotions, and affective science, with a focus on providing explicative definitions of information and emotion. More recently, he has connected these areas by examining the information broadcast by emotional expressions and their role in providing an informational infrastructure for the emergence of language in human ancestors.